The calendar had already been modified in April 2024, in order to access a claim of the demonstrators. The repression of the protest movement against the Peruvian president has already left forty-six dead.
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Under popular pressure, the Peruvian president, Dina Boluarte, asked on Friday January 27 in Parliament to advance the new general elections in December 2023. The calendar had already been modified in April 2024, in order to access to a claim of the demonstrators and to try to get the country out of the crisis.
In Peru, the protest movement does not weaken. The troubles began on December 7, 2022 after the dismissal and arrest of the left president Pedro Castillo, accused of having tried a coup by wanting to dissolve the Parliament which was about to chase it from power.
Pushed to the exit door by demonstrators who claim her resignation, Dina Boluarte called on Tuesday to a “national truce”. The repression of the demonstrations has already left forty-six dead, for which M me boluarte denies all responsibility. The country’s general prosecutor nevertheless opened an investigation against her for genocide and homicide, and a complaint for crimes against humanity was filed by Peruvian lawyers, before the International Criminal Court, Monday, January 23.
An already advanced calendar
When taking office of M me boluarte, who was vice-president, the electoral calendar had been set at 2026, that is to say at the end of the mandate that his predecessor should have accomplished. To contain the emerging challenge, the acting president had already proposed to the Parliament to advance the presidential and legislative elections in April 2024. A first vote, on December 20, had validated the bill, and a second had to endorse it.
A measure that did not silence popular anger. Several roads are blocked in the country, which is starting to experience shortages and a pricing.